Tom wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Steven ** > <[email protected]<montgoss%[email protected]> >> wrote: > >> As long as they are easy to install after the fact and it's obvious >> when something isn't working because of a missing module, I'd be fine >> with removing all modules that aren't needed for core/basic >> functionality. >> >> -Steven >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Tom<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hey everyone, >> > We (many people) discussed on IRC about reducing SHR fat from the lite >> > image, we found many heavy and useless packages installed by default >> and >> of >> > course dropped them (a very obvious example: tcpdump). >> > After that, we decided to attack the kernel modules mess (as suggested >> in >> a >> > ticket in our trac iirc), I attached (and also linked to the wiki >> page) a >> > list of kernel modules installed in shr by default, >> > please tell us what you think (i.e which to remove). Play try to avoid >> > echoing (i.e writing I agree with X) as it'll just make our work >> harder >> :) >> > >> > I actually think a wiki page is most suitable for this kind of work, >> so I >> > also created a wiki page, please consider editing that instead of >> replying >> > here! >> > >> > wiki: http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Kernel%20Modules >> > >> > -- >> > Tom. >> > >> > > > I disagree! The phone should be able to provide cool (though basic) > funcutunality like being able to read a usb stick! > If that's what you meant, (i.e keep those) that's where we are heading, > though I opened this wiki page to help us mark what's > important and what's not.
May I remind you that this is not done to merely safe space where it is not important. There is a good reason for this diet. GTA01 has only 64MB Flash! The lite image barely fits on that device. Every byte saved makes this device usable again! Currently there is not even enough space to install the GPS driver, which can not be shipped with the distro. (gllin) Cool stuff is really not my concern here. It's about making it usable at all. We are talking about the lite image. There is no reason to make it needlessly fat. Everything can be installed via opkg and there is always the fat image for people like you. -- MFG Tilman Baumann _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
